Nice FE! Last time I tried it I had a lot of problems, but now things seem good! A couple of questions, though...

How do you get the intro/outro videos to work? The tabs for selecting them are greyed out on my cab.

I've set the FE up as a shell in WinXP Pro sp1. I've done this a few times on different FE's, namely GameLauncher and Dragonking without a problem before, but when I tried it with yours it throws up an error that Kyaemera hasn't been configured. When launched from either Cmd Line or 'New Task' it works fine. Also, is there any known issues with the Exit & Shutdown feature? It doesn't seem to do anyting on my machine!

Well, that's about the only main problems that I've had. The list utility is a stroke of genius, BTW. Exactly the kind of thing that I've spent the last couple of months looking for (sick of editing GameLauncher lists by hand!).

Why have you switched solely to SourceForge? Is there any chance of seeing a dedicated site in the future?

Keep up the good work!

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Nice FE! Last time I tried it I had a lot of problems, but now things seem good! A couple of questions, though...

How do you get the intro/outro videos to work? The tabs for selecting them are greyed out on my cab.

I've set the FE up as a shell in WinXP Pro sp1. I've done this a few times on different FE's, namely GameLauncher and Dragonking without a problem before, but when I tried it with yours it throws up an error that Kyaemera hasn't been configured. When launched from either Cmd Line or 'New Task' it works fine. Also, is there any known issues with the Exit & Shutdown feature? It doesn't seem to do anyting on my machine!

Well, that's about the only main problems that I've had. The list utility is a stroke of genius, BTW. Exactly the kind of thing that I've spent the last couple of months looking for (sick of editing GameLauncher lists by hand!).

Why have you switched solely to SourceForge? Is there any chance of seeing a dedicated site in the future?

Keep up the good work!

Thanks for the interest in Kymaera.Let's see, to answer your questions:1) the intro/exit/launch videos aren't quite fully functional yet. Look for it in the next release. Same thing for the exit and shutdown key, it hasn't been implemented yet.

2) I've never tried to set up Kymaera to be the shell before. I'll look into it. It sounds like Kymaera is being started from a different working directory than the installation directory. If you can, change to the kymaera directory before launching kymaera, or specify the kymaer ainstall directory to be the current directory.

3) I've put a lot of work into making the gamelsit creation as flexiable as possible. I think it's still a little to confiusing for the average user. I'm thinking about making some sort of "Wizard" for it. Glad to hear you like it.

4) Since I've made Kymaera open source, Putting it at Sourceforge.net seems like the logical choice. I can have my own main page for kymaera, but I seem to be having trouble uploading it to the Sourceforge server at the moment. I'll have it up as soon as I figure it out. I did recently upload some screen shots.

Let me know if you have any suggestions for future releases.

Thanks.

-PMF

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The DOS port is coming along, I'm not quite sure why it's not working on your system. It's working fine on my desktop machine and my arcade cab. I'm putting in some better error handling routines, and beefing up the initalization routines as a well as outputting more info to the log file.

I'm sure it's gotta be something simple I'm overlooking. I'll have another build, or least a debug build in a few days. Thanks again for testing.

-PMF

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I decided that I would play it safe and placed all of the Kymaera folders into the root of Docs&Settings, and finally, SUCCESS! In my case this was C:\Documents and Settings\Richard.

Example: the config folder's address is now: 'C:\Documents and Settings\Richard\config'

This seems to make it work fine.

Does anybody know of a registry hack that would change this so that the program will run in its original folder? My HDD is partitioned into two, with all my MAME stuff (ALL OF IT!) on the D: drive for safety. I tried changing a registry entry called HOMEROOT, I think it was, but this didn't seem to do anything. I know it's just a small quibble, but it's annoying the hell out of me! If there's any interest in it, I could pen a guide to getting this and a lot of other FE's running in shell, completely hiding Windows XP. The only thing that actually gives it away that the machine's a PC is the BIOS screen. Handy for those running a VGA.

Now all he has to do is get the exit&shutdown working!

BTW Peale, nice avatar!

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One good knee in the happy-sacks and it'll go down like any other smegger!

OK all, I've been making a few fixes these past few days to Kymaera. To list a few things and answer some questions:

1) Exit and Shutdown now works.2) The marquee image crashing is caused by a bad png. The png has an error in it somewhere. If you use an image browser (such as psp) you should be able to find it.3) Switching lists from one emu to another or one game list to another now properly updates the screen images.4) To generate a list of atari (or any other) roms, use the "Create from rom directories" button in the game list generation screen.

I know the kymaeraconfig program still has a few bugs that cause it to crash. I'm now focusing my effots on making a config program that runs in DOS, Windows and Linux, so I won't be updating the kymaeraconfig program unless it's something major that needs fixing.

I'd like to hear about any suggestions for new features before the next release.

-PMF

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I know the kymaeraconfig program still has a few bugs that cause it to crash. I'm now focusing my effots on making a config program that runs in DOS, Windows and Linux, so I won't be updating the kymaeraconfig program unless it's something major that needs fixing.

Right now it's still the space bar. Before I updated Kymaera with the new location of z26.exe, etc. I could press the space bar and it would switch to the pre made 2600 list. Now it simply launches what ever Mame rom is highlighted.

Yeah, I think I switched the defualt key definition between those releases. You know, you can switch it to be any key (or key combination) you want it to be through the "Input Config" screen in the KyConfig program.

-PMF

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Yeah, I think I switched the defualt key definition between those releases. You know, you can switch it to be any key (or key combination) you want it to be through the "Input Config" screen in the KyConfig program.

compiling cpp src/fontmanager.cppcompiling cpp src/soungmanager.cppcompiling cpp src/skin.cppIn file included from include/gamelist.h:23, from include/skin.h:27, from src/skin.cpp:21:include/gameentry.h:64: `FILE' was not declared in this scopeinclude/gameentry.h:64: `fp' was not declared in this scopeinclude/gameentry.h:65: `FILE' was not declared in this scopeinclude/gameentry.h:65: `fp' was not declared in this scopeIn file included from src/skin.cpp:26:include/kymaerafe.h: In method `void LaunchCommand::Save(CMarkupSTL *)':include/kymaerafe.h:221: implicit declaration of function `int sprintf(...)'make: *** [skin.oo] Error 1bash-2.05a#

Weird, I'm sure how it would be compiling then under Windows.I haven't compiled for Linux in about a month, I've been focusing on DOS and Windows. The DOS compile should be identical to the Linux (almost) because they both use the gcc compiler.

Come to think of it, I don't think I've tested it in Linux since I've added in the DUMB library for extra music support. If dumb is giving you a problem, comment it out from soundmanager file if you can't fix it.

-PMF

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1. When sorting my ROMS into lists, they won't stay in alphabetical order. Why is this? The destination list sorts fine in the list creator when I click the tab above the ROM name column, but when the list is saved and then opened in KYMAERA it's all to ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- again! I've looked into the XML documents, and it would appear that no matter what I do thy're sorted in a seemingly randowm order.

2. Is there any easy and foolproof way of excluding differing versions of the same game? EG, ALIENS, ALIENS (WORLD EDITION), ALIENS (US EDITION) etc, all I want is the parent ROM; ALIENS. So far I've been doing it the hard way, but there must be a way of excluding child ROMS automatically?

5. I know this has probably been asked a multitude of time, but time online for me is short, and I'm posting anyway, sooooooo... where can I get videos of games running? It would look so much better than just the still snapshots! I know that you can do it yourself with an earlier version of MAME, but I'm not too sure when this feature was removed. Also, what format does KYMAERA support?

Well, sorry for the brief post, but like I said, short on time! Gotta' go, cheers for the help guys, and cheers to PACMANFAN for his hard work! Havent tried the updated version yet, but I'm getting it was we speak!

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1) That's weird, it was working at one point, That's how I sorted the mame3.xml list in the first place. I'll look into it.

2) Not currently, You're like the 5th person asking about excluding / including roms by the cloneof info. I'll be sure to put that in for the next release. For now, you could try to filter out games with "(" or ")" in them.

5)(3 sir, 3) I think there is a torrent link floating around to get the movies. Mine came along with my set of roms. Kymaera can support both avi's and mpg's right now. I'm looking into other movie formats as well.

-PMF

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